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WARNING: Most of Colonial Beach is Under a Boil Water Advisory

by Deirdre Blakeposted Jul 23 2014 10:31AM

If you live in Colonial Beach, hopefully you already got the word to boil your water before you drink it.
It comes after a routine test at a home on July 8th tested positive for E-coli that could now affect about 25-hundred homes. The town is flushing pipes and adding more chlorine, before taking more samples. E. coli's an indicator the water could be contaminated with human or animal wastes.